Cisco Trimester3 Vocabulary & Questions Chapter 2

Vocabulary

Acknowledgment

Backbone

Bandwidth

Broadcast

Collision domain

Congestion

Cut-through

Fast Ethernet

Fast-forward switching

Fragment-free switching

Full-duplex Ethernet

Memory buffer

Microsegmentation

Propagation delay

Repeater

Segment

Sliding window

Switching

Topology

VLAN(Virtual LAN)

Questions

1. Distinguish between cut-through and store-and-forward switching.

2. Describe full- and half-duplex Ethernet operation.

3. Describe the advantages of LAN segmentation that uses switches.

4. What are the differences between repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches and routers?

5. What is a multiport repeater?

6. What is the difference between Shared Ethernet and Switched Ethernet?